BIND servfail

[Roy Arends]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Va Cager wrote:

> I installed BIND-9.1.1 on my linux server.
> 
> Basically, the server does not answer queries for any domain that is a soa
> for. It will resolve any other domain until the cows buy homes. I have
> followed everything in the BIND book from O'Reilly and I am very perplexed.
> 
> named-checkconfig yields only that the auth for nxdomain is no and the
> named-check for the zones that I load as master yields that the ttl is not
> there.......
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> the resolv.conf points to search: mydomain.com
> nameserver 0.0.0.0
> nameserver 129.250.35.250
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> the host.conf : order hosts,bind multi on
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> named.conf is:
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         pid-file "named.pid";
>         allow-query { any; };
>         /*
>          * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>          * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>          * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>          * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>          * port by default.
>          */
>         // query-source address * port 53;
> };
> 
> //
> // a cache nameserver config
> //
> 
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.ca";
> };
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "named.local";
> };
> zone "businessmonkey.com" {
>         type master;
>         file "businessmonkey.com.db";
> };
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> and the .db is:
> @ IN SOA businessmonkey.com. root.businessmonkey.com. (
>    20010031302
>    8H
>    2H
>    1W
>    1D )
> 
> 
>    NS ns1.businessmonkey.com.
>    NS ns2.slush.org.
>    NS ns100.businessmonkey.com
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> So, there it is. I have no idea why it is not working. None.

One way to find out what is wrong is to check your logs. There is probably
some info on refusing a zone.

Also, there is a migration document in bind-9.1.1/doc/misc, please read
it.

Looking at your .db file, you're missing the TTL directive and maye some
glue.


Regards,
Roy Arends
Nominum